Roundtable: Reverse Outline? What Is It and Why Do It?

Today we have the first of our roundtables and we’re focusing on the mysterious (or not so mysterious) REVERSE OUTLINE. What is it? Why might you want to do it (or not?) And what methods are the most helpful. And we’ve got four incredible writers joining us to round out our discussion: Desmond Hall, Christine Murphy, Patricia Park, and Hesse Phillips

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Desmond Hall is the author of two award-winning YA novels, including most recently Better Must Come, which was a top ten In the Margins book pick, and long listed for Massachusetts Book Award.

Christine Murphy is the author of Notes on Surviving The Fire (out this year from Knopf), considered one of the best crime novels of the year so far by NYT, “brilliant” by the Financial Times, and praised by the New Yorker for its layered narrative and anarchic spirit.

Patricia Park is the author of The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Re Jane, a Jane Eyre retelling; Imposter Syndrome, a Gotham Book Prize finalist; and most recently, What’s Eating Jackie Oh?

Hesse Phillips's debut novel Lightborne was a finalist in the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair and a London Times' Top Historical Fiction Book of 2024.